Our Staff

Director | Technology-enhanced Teaching | Professional Development | General Administration |

Mr Nick NOAKES, Director of CEI

Nick Noakes joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1994 and has been in the Center (previously CELT) since January 2001.

Nick's areas of research interest are teaching and learning practices around emerging technologies in higher education, epistemological and cognitive change, and institutional change strategies.

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Technology-enhanced Teaching (eLearning)

The team promotes the adoption of instructionally sound technologies in learning and teaching at HKUST. We support faculty and teaching staff in their teaching efforts through the followings:

• provide training on live interactive and mixed mode teaching and guidelines on conducting proctored online examination.
• provide project management service, Instructional Design advice, educational video production facilities and support, technological advice, learning analytics and evaluation support to institutional eLearning initiatives, including Blended Learning and MOOC.
• collaborate with teaching staff in developing customized interactive online content/objects to support their eLearning initiatives.
• provide hands-on training and usage support on institutional eLearning platform and tools, such as Canvas, Turnitin and iPeer.
• manage and provide support on Coursera for HKUST and Coursera Partner Consortium to students, alumni and staff.
• explore and promote emerging technologies for active learning and teaching, such as in-video quizzing, game-based clickers, automated proctoring tools, etc.

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Professional Development

The team fosters and advocates innovative pedagogies and best practices in learning and teaching. We support faculty, teaching staff and graduate teaching assistants through the followings:

• provide professional development programs for faculty and teaching staff according to the university’s teaching and learning initiatives, including faculty orientation; university teaching course; seminars and workshops; and annual teaching and learning symposium,
• provide institutional-wide teaching and learning course for all research postgraduates to prepare them for their teaching duties, and to collaborate with Teaching Assistant Coordinators (TAC) to support their departmental graduate teaching assistants,
• support teaching innovations through teaching development grant projects by providing instructional advice and evaluation support, and
• discover and promote the adoption of innovative active learning methods in course design, such as authentic learning through experiential approaches.

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General Administration

The support and services provided by the team range from fielding enquiries, budget administration, logistics arrangement for workshops, seminars and special events, office management, maintaining office supplies, procurement/acquisition, inventory control, administration support for General Education courses and personnel matters to record keeping.

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